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Sell Yourself Well – What Soham Parekh Can Teach Us

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Re: Sell Yourself Well – What Soham Parekh Can Teach Us

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I dunno, a better lesson to take away from this is, don't fall for sales. I think more people will do better to learn to evaluate others by what they do rather than what they say. If you don't know better, reputation and first-hand references will give you much better indicators than someone's own words.

Re: Sell Yourself Well – What Soham Parekh Can Teach Us

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tl;dr - the personalized cover letter, much maligned by job seekers nowadays (https://www.google.com/search?q=cover+letter+dead), is actually incredibly effective for applying to small companies (of the size where the inboxes of the CEOs and founders aren't heavily filtered and managed) if you keep it short and human and send it directly to those folks.

Re: Sell Yourself Well – What Soham Parekh Can Teach Us

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post #5

I dunno, a better lesson to take away from this is, don't fall for sales. I think more people will do better to learn to evaluate others by what they do rather than what they say. If you don't know better, reputation and first-hand references will give you much better indicators than someone's own words.

This guy had the sales chops and the ability to write good code (as pointed out in the tweets). Sounds like the complete package.

Re: Sell Yourself Well – What Soham Parekh Can Teach Us

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tl;dr - the personalized cover letter, much maligned by job seekers nowadays ( https://www.google.com/search?q=cover+letter+dead ), is actually incredibly effective for applying to small companies (of the size where the inboxes of the CEOs and founders aren't heavily filtered and managed) if you keep it short and human and send it directly to those folks.

The problem is, these CEOs of small companies are already inundated with spam or they're super busy to respond to you.
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